Pöhl was reappointed by Helmut Kohl in 1987 but the two fell out over Kohl’s insistence, as a key element of reunification, ...

Helmut Schlesinger, the former president of the Bundesbank who has died at the age of 100, was regarded as the German central ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday paid tribute to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as a leading statesman ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolves parliament, setting new elections for Feb. 23 after Olaf Scholz's ...

Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has ...

And Europe could face simultaneous trade wars with China and the US. French president François Mitterrand (left) and German chancellor Helmut Kohl are credited for overcoming national interests and ...

Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen criticized corporate media outlets over their failure to cover President Joe Biden’s ...

He won that vote. Even so, Schimdt was ousted a short time later. That opened the door for CDU politician Helmut Kohl, who took over as chancellor. But without having won an election, Kohl knew he ...

It happened under Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972, Helmut Kohl in 1982 and Gerhard Schroeder in 2005. Schroeder used the confidence vote to engineer an early election narrowly won by centre-right ...

Prominent former CDU chancellors include the first post-WWII leader Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl, dubbed the father of Germany's 1990 reunification. The FDP, which promotes liberal economic ...

While Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl both went on to win the subsequent elections and remain chancellors, Gerhard Schröder lost to Angela Merkel in 2005. The only twist in the otherwise predictable ...